Video: Ethical oil

posted at 8:10 pm on August 30, 2011 by Tina Korbe

No doubt you’ve seen coverage of environmentalist activists converging on the nation’s capital to protest a proposed oil pipeline — the Keystone XL — that would run from Canada to Texas. B-lister Mark Ruffalo even lent his considerable celebrity to the cause in this video. But a new ad asks an interesting question: Why would those enviros rather bankroll Saudi Arabia’s oppression of women than allow the pipeline to run through the United States?

Would make too much sense. Plus, I believe EPA regulations make the construction of new refineries prohibitive.

carbon_footprint on August 30, 2011 at 8:15 PM

We’ve built no new refineries since Gerald R. Ford was president.

This is why we need massrighty’s 5 point energy plan:
1. Drill/Mine/Extract whatever we have, wherever it is.
2. Build refineries in each state – no more transporting crude, so that we can retransport the refined product. (We’re moving gas twice, in gas powered vehicles!)
3. Nuclear
4. Any alternative energy source (wind/water/switchgrass/pigcrap) gets fast-tracked – less review, more construction.
5. Any help to any OPEC country (and yes, I’m talking to you, Mexico) is given in exchange for negotiated discounts.

The results? Permanent jobs, and a boost to critical segments of the economy.

This is why we need massrighty’s 5 point energy plan:
1. Drill/Mine/Extract whatever we have, wherever it is.
2. Build refineries in each state – no more transporting crude, so that we can retransport the refined product. (We’re moving gas twice, in gas powered vehicles!)
3. Nuclear
4. Any alternative energy source (wind/water/switchgrass/pigcrap) gets fast-tracked – less review, more construction.
5. Any help to any OPEC country (and yes, I’m talking to you, Mexico) is given in exchange for negotiated discounts.

The results? Permanent jobs, and a boost to critical segments of the economy.

Remember when we couldn’t buy anything from South Africa because the liberals didn’t like the segregation of blacks and whites in South Africa? You know, all that sturm and drang about human rights? Remember that? You couldn’t buy an orange from South Africa without being spat on by the politically correct collective conscience of the West. Many countries wouldn’t even let South African Airways fly through their airspace. The world made them a pariah. All the while they were fighting a terrorist organization in the ANC and the ANC itself was murdering blacks left and right. (remember necklacing?)

Funny, what goes on in Saudi Arabia is a hell of a lot worse than mere segregation, but nobody cares – especially not the liberals. Not the government. Not business. Virtually nobody. They not only segregate women, they punish them, torture them, and kill them.

Yet, the Saudis are our best pals. BFF. And the liberals want us to buy their oil and not ours.

The femenazis only care about women’s rights in America. They couldn’t care less about the rest of the world. To acknowledge REAL sexual discrimination would be admitting their own cause is miniscule in comparison.

The femenazis only care about [liberal] women’s rights in America. They couldn’t care less about the rest of the world. To acknowledge REAL sexual discrimination would be admitting their own cause is miniscule in comparison.

You know, there’s more that ad could have said that it didn’t, like why do we buy oil from countries that allow honor killings? Or allows men to throw acid on women’s faces, sometimes for the flimsiest of reasons, scarring them for life? Or practices female genital mutilation?

Maybe I’m asking for a bit much, but it seems like this is too timid an approach for such a monstrous society as Islam appears to be.

I have a mother, a wife, sisters, a daughter, a daughter in law, a granddaughter and many female friends and colleagues. If Canada doesn’t advocate female circumcision and clitoridectomy I’m with the Canucks and their oil, eh!

Actually read a liberal lefty insist that oil sands be left untouched for eternity.

Build the refineries by the source, and build the coal burning power plants by the source. Why do we ship hundreds of millions of tons of coal all over the US? Transmit the energy instead over a decent power grid.

Just a thought: the 2010 $1,170,000,000,000 ($1.17 trillion) wasted on who knows what? Could have paid for it all.

Listening to Hannah attempt to answer Hannity’s question about how she would deal with Imadinnerjacket or other assorted maniacs, was outright laughable. We had an anagram describing such girls in years gone by … YDFC. She’s not, however, so young anymore, so maybe just dumb and not FC either.

I’ve followed the environmentalist’s actions for years now; and I think I get their main points.

Production, drilling, and energy in Western nations is wrong.

CO2 production is bad. Pollution is bad. Side effects of refining is bad. But they won’t stop using oil, so not that bad.

I think they support drilling and refineries, etc. in other countries because Saudi Arabia, China, Venezuela, Russia, etc. have better environmental control and environmental watchgroups than the western nations.

So if only we had the environmental controls and pollution prevention plans of say China we could produce here. But the EPA and these environmental groups are insufficient for any useful cause; so we must push this production elsewhere, even if it result in shipping the energy sources to the US and producing CO2 and pollution risks this way.

The environmental groups in the US are just too useless compared to China’s environmental record for anything to be better for the global environment.

If I’m wrong, please clarify how what they’re doing matches your explanation better than mine. I’m working from watching their actions for decades; and this is the only rational explanation I can come up with.

Why would those enviros rather bankroll Saudi Arabia’s oppression of women than allow the pipeline to run through the United States?

Because the enviros aren’t even thinking that far along. They have no conception that we’ll need petroleum from SOME source well into the near future. They think that all “we” need to do is sprinkle some magic government pixie dust on the ground and renewable energy will just spring out of the earth, fully formed and amazingly free of any negative consequences.

What you should be asking is, why won’t they share with you their apparently inexhaustible stash psychoactive pharmacopeia that enables these breathless flights of fancy. Just plain selfish, I say.

Every dollar we spend on oil from the Middle East helps fund the fighters who are killing and wounding our troops. We have funded both sides of the war on terror long enough. Send the environmentalist to the Middle East and build the pipeline. Shut down EPA and continue clean coal technology and build coal fired generating plants. Get Obama out of the Whitehouse and drill everywhere we find oil. In the meantime, lets start looking into natural gas as a alternative fuel for car and light duty trucks. NO pollution and the engines will last twice as long because no carbon build up.

Would make too much sense. Plus, I believe EPA regulations make the construction of new refineries prohibitive.

carbon_footprint on August 30, 2011 at 8:15 PM

If I remember right, there hasn’t been a new refinery built in the U.S. for many years. Too many regulations.

We have, however, closed refineries in the U.S. and built them overseas. Amerada Hess, for instance, closed their aging refinery in Mississippi and built a huge, brand new and state of the art refinery in the Virgin Islands.

If it is good for the American people, then they’re opposed to it and dream up a laundry list of excuses as to why. When these are exposed as nonsense; they fall back on yelling, screeching, and name calling.

If something is bad for America, or helps our enemies and adversaries, then they are in favor of it.

The reason for all this is that the left is still operating as a Soviet 5th column, even though the Soviet Union itself is long gone.

This is not a conscious choice on their part, but something that became embedded in the nature of the left, below their conscious awareness.